John Allen STERLING

(1857-1918)

STERLING, John Allen,
(brother of Thomas Sterling), a Representative from Illinois; born
near Le Roy, McLean County, Ill., February 1, 1857; attended the
public schools, and was graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan
University at Bloomington in 1881; superintendent of the public
schools of Lexington, Ill., 1881-1883; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in December 1884 and commenced practice in Bloomington,
Ill.; State’s attorney of McLean County 1892-1896; member of
the Republican State central committee 1896-1898; elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); one of the managers
appointed by the House of Representatives in 1912 to conduct the
impeachment proceedings against Robert W. Archbald, judge of the
United States Commerce Court; unsuccessful candidate for reelection
to the Sixty-third Congress; elected to the Sixty-fourth and
Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his
death near Pontiac, Ill., as the result of an automobile accident,
October 17, 1918; interment in Park Hill Cemetery, Bloomington,
Ill.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present